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Senate Bill S9065

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the reconnection of service for low-income customers

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2025-S9065 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §35, Pub Serv L

2025-S9065 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the reconnection of service for low-income customers; provides that upon the signing of a reconnection plan where a low-income customer shall pay no more than ten percent of such customer's monthly income plus such customer's current monthly bill a utility shall reconnect such service.

2025-S9065 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9065 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9065
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 28, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
   cations
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to the reconnection
   of service for low-income customers
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 35 of the public service law, as
 amended by chapter 686 of the laws  of  2002,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  The commission shall by regulation establish reasonable conditions
 under which an electric or gas  corporation  or  municipality  shall  be
 required  to  take all actions within such corporation or municipality's
 control and, where applicable, consistent  with  the  provision  of  the
 agreement for commodity service, if any, between the corporation and the
 customer,  provided  such provisions are consistent with this article to
 reconnect  service  to  residential  customers.  Such  conditions  shall
 include, but not be limited to, requirements for reconnection of service
 within  twenty-four  hours, unless prevented by circumstances beyond the
 utility's or municipality's control, (a) upon receipt by  a  corporation
 or  municipality  of the full amount of arrears which were the basis for
 termination of service, (b) upon the signing of a deferred payment  plan
 together  with a down payment based on criteria to be established by the
 commission, provided that no such down payment shall exceed one-half  of
 the  amount  which  was the basis of termination, or the amount of three
 months billing, whichever is less, (c) upon the direction of the commis-
 sion, (d) upon the receipt of a commitment of  a  direct  payment  or  a
 written  guarantee  of  payment from the social services official of the
 social services district in which the customer resides [or],  (e)  where
 the  utility  or  municipality  has  notice that a serious impairment to
 health or safety is likely to result if service is  not  reconnected  OR
 (F) WHERE A LOW-INCOME CUSTOMER HAS DEMONSTRATED AN INABILITY TO PAY THE
 FULL  AMOUNT OF ARREARS WHICH WERE THE BASIS FOR TERMINATION OF SERVICE,
 UPON THE SIGNING OF A RECONNECTION PLAN WHERE SUCH  LOW-INCOME  CUSTOMER
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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